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Muriel Newmarch was born in North London in 1903. She died in 2009, aged 106. Judith Bruce is her daughter, and Funny How Things Turn Out- part biography, part memoir - tells the story of both women, which in turn traces the unprecedented changes to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992896317Author Roland WardFormat PaperbackImprint TRW BooksPublisher TRW Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990619901Author Tom RubythonFormat HardbackPage Count 812Imprint Myrtle PressPublisher Myrtle PressWeight(grams) 1375g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955835308Author Toby Tobin-DouganFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Grey Mullet PublishingPublisher Grey Mullet Publishing

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who'd been effectively run out of Cheltenham for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752416908Author Peter HinchliffeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

What would inspire a man to give up his job? Lie to his friends? Avoid his parents? Con his girlfriend? And shell out tens of thousands of his own cash? Only to spend months in a darkened room in South London, looking for the money shot and hanging out...

This is a portrait of Gordon Brown's first year as Chancellor of the Exchequer, offering insights into his life inside and outside Downing Street, his day-to-day dealings at the Treasury with the Prime Minister and in Cabinet, and his private life.Book...

As children, Roy and Alison Smith were so close their mother called them by one name: Alroy. But on a cool summer morning when she was fifteen, Alison woke to learn that Roy, three years older, was dead. While her Catholic parents wrestled with their...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595176250Author Raymond G HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm * 11mm

For Dr Hilary Jones, the question 'What's up doc?' has been asked of him ever since he qualified as a doctor at the Royal Free hospital in London over thirty years ago.As a junior medic patients used to ask him 'What's up?' when he prodded their bellies...

This biography of the most celebrated writer in history, tracks Shakespeare's life from his youth in the Warwickshire countryside before disappearing for seven years, to his life in London as an apprentice actor, his return to Stratford as a prosperous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780285635463Author Julia ScullyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Souvenir Press LtdPublisher Profile Books Ltd

A self-confessed non-conformist puritan, Kenneth Griffith's life and work as actor, writer and film-maker are testaments to the essential ambivalence of a complex and colourful character. His inherent anti-establishment mischievousness is coupled with a...

Fifteen years on from Anthony Holden's undisputed classic BIG DEAL, the poker world has changed beyond recognition. When Holden played in the 1988 World Series of Poker there were 167 entrants competing for a prize of $270,000. At the 2006 WSOP, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780292702592Author H Joaquin JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas PressWeight(grams) 635g

Darwin's theory that men's ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value...

A few months after two of his parents had died, Martin Rowson had a dream about the house he grew up in which was crammed with tons and tons of stuff, both physical and emotional. In this book Rowson delves into all that 'stuff'; weaving together dreams,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300051834Author Robert Louis StevensonPage Count 542Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 1070gDimensions(mm) 248mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846831973Author Leonard Alston-Roberts-WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760794767Author Kathryn Lesley SpurlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland PublishersWeight(grams) 570g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681398358Author Laverne S CopelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909109667Format PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Splendid Publications LimitedPublisher Splendid Publications Limited

** AN ABSOLUTE MUST-READ: A BRAND NEW ELON MUSK BIOGRAPHY**In 2022 Elon Musk - one of the richest and best-known people on earth - made headlines worldwide with his bid to buy Twitter, and he is often in the news for his entrepreneurial exploits and his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060884369Author Tom JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993298660Format PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Dram Good Books LtdPublisher Dram Good Books LtdWeight(grams) 97g

Barack Obama: Quotes to Live By is a life-affirming collection of over 170 quotes from one of the world's most admired and respected public figures. Excelling academically, professionally and as a community organizer, Barack Obama showed promise and...

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Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670863761Author Stephanie AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Viking AustraliaPublisher Penguin Books AustraliaWeight(grams) 1034g

Here is quite simply one of the most original books about a jazz musician ever published--a biography-cum-discography that focuses in turn on fourteen major albums recorded by Miles Davis, using them as a jumping off point for an illuminating discussion...

Part of a series of books which examines real-life stories that have made newspaper headlines around the world, this looks at wealthy men and women who came to a tragic end. Other titles available include The World's Greatest Secrets and The World's...

Provides documentation, containing over 10,000 researched source notes, as well as the cumulative index to the first three volumes of this work on George Bernard Shaw. This text also includes Holroyd's epilogue, Volume 4, The Last Laugh 1950-1991.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060554699Author Janice DickinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint ReganBooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home is the best-known animal sanctuary in the world. Since it first opened its doors in 1860, millions of abandoned and abused pets have benefited from its refuge. Around the world Battersea is a byword for compassion and hope...

This is a frank, gripping and moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic and effective politicians of the last fifty years. His political convictions, his distance from New Labour, and his direct, plain-speaking style...

Legendarily reticent, perverse and misleading, Prince is one of the few remaining 80s superstars who still, perhaps, remains unexplained. Now a firm fixture in the pop canon, where such classics as "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times"...